{"id":266853,"date":"2025-07-16T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266853\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:50:18","slug":"starmer-refuses-to-rule-out-pensions-tax-hike-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266853\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer Refuses to Rule Out Pensions Tax Hike \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        WATCH: Starmer Refuses to Rule Out Pensions Tax Hike    <\/p>\n<p>Kemi Badenoch asked Starmer whether he agreed that \u201ca tax on pension contributions is a tax on working people.\u201d Downing Street is still unsure of that definition\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Starmer refused to rule out a pensions tax, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m we made absolutely clear manifesto commitments which she asked me about last week and we are keeping I\u2019m not going to write the budget months out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/tax-on-your-private-pension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stands<\/a>, someone\u2019s private pension contributions are tax-free up to \u00a360,000 a year. Expect changes to this to crop up in the budget\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH: Starmer Refuses to Rule Out Pensions Tax Hike Kemi Badenoch asked Starmer whether he agreed that \u201ca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863474169116228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}